Chair



(No Model.)

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GHAIR.

No. 320,629. Patented June 23, 1885.

n. PEIERS. mo -MW UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES CLOSTERMAN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,629, dated June 23, 1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES GLOSTERMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to what is known to the furniture trade as knockdown chairs. Its object is a chair which can be set up and partially taken apart and folded so as to 00- cupy but little space for transportation, and readily set up, and when set up has all the ap pearance and rigidity of the chairs in common use.

Heretofore chairs of this class have been made knockdown by making the seatframe, back, arms, and legs, then fitting the parts together, but without gluing them, and after the chair was finished again separating the parts and numbering each so that they could be again fitted to their places and glued when they reached their destination. Considerable time was thus wasted and much confusion caused, especially in shipping large quantities. By my improvement this time is saved and inconvenience avoided, as the parts which require fitting remain attached together, and when knocked down occupy no more space than those in which the parts are all made separate.

In the accompanying drawings,in which like parts are indicated by similar reference-letters rails A, secured together by cross-rails in the rups in place. It is preferable to secure the stirrups by screws through the perforations in the web to enable the seat to be detached from the back for thepnrpose of upholstering, caning, or other suitable finish, and also to enable the seat to be attached in place after the back is framed up; but a pin, like pin a, projecting from the web at right angles and between the flanges would secure the seat in place, but in such case the seat would have to be framed in with the back when it was put together, and would not be detachable. The front legs,DD, are permanently framed together by the rounds d and the top cross-piece, E, into which the upper ends of the legs 1) are inserted. The

arms]? are secured to the outside of the rails A by screwsf, and are secured to the seat by screws f, which pass through the thin rabbeted end of the arm into the edge of the seatframe. The shoulder above the rabbeted end of the arm, resting upon the top of the seatframe, braces the seat and back firmly in position when the screws f f are in place. The side rounds, g, are turned off with a shoulder, leaving tenons to enter holes in the back and front legs in the usual manner. The seat is secured by screws passing from the under side of the piece E,through it and into the seat-frame.

In practice the front frame, consisting of the legs D, rounds (Z, and top piece, E, are firmly secured together, as is also the back A and its cross-rails. The seat B is then placed in position and screwed down on the piece E,and arms F secured by screws, as seen in Fig. 1; but the rounds g are not glued into the front and back legs. In this position the chair is varnished or oil-finished as the common chairs are, and when it is desired to ship the chairs the screws f are removed, the screws f loosened, and the arms turned up against the side of the rails A, as seen in Fig. 3. The screws which secure the piece E and seat 13 together are removed, and the front of the chair and rounds g are then separated from the back and the seat turned up against the back. The front in an inverted position is placed upon the back, with the lower ends of the legs passing upon each side of the seat. The chair is now in position shown in Fig. 2, in

which position it occupies but little space for packing and transportation. The rounds 9 may be placed between the upper ends of the seat and back frame, or when the chairs are boxed or crated they may be left until the last and packed around the frame in any convenient space left for them.

To set up the chairs after they have reached their destination it is only necessary to replace the rounds 9, drop the seat-frame upon the piece E and the arms upon the seat-frame, and tighten up the screws. It is better,of course, to glue the front of the seat to the piece E,and also glue the arms in position, tighten up the screws, which then firmly Clamp the parts together, and we have glued joints. As the tenons on the rails g are chucked to uniform size, and the holes in the front and back legs bored by the same bit, it is of course not necessary to number any of the parts,as all those requiring fitting by a cabinet-maker are attached together. It is evident, therefore, that the disconnected parts-that is, the rails g,

been provided with metal hangers and slides .to couple the back of the chair to the seat- 1. In a knockdown chair, the combination,

substantially as specified, of the chair-back framed together, as shown, and the metal stirrup O, pivoted to the inside of the back posts, with the front composed of the legs D,rounds (Z, and top piece, E, and the seat B, secured at the rear end to the stirrup and detachably secured to the top piece, E, whereby the front may be conveniently separated from the back and seat, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, substantially as specified, of the back rails, A, seat B, pivotally secured to the back rails by the metal couplingpiece O,with the front D, d, and E, framed together, as shown, and the side braces, F, detachably secured to the back and seat by the screws f f, for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES OLOSTERMAN.

XVitnesses:

E. G. GORY, GEO. J. 'luURRAY. 

